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More than 85 people attended the showing of Antigone on Aug. 28--it was a great success!  Some sat on the floor.  Some left because they couldn't find a seat.  To ensure a similar turnout for the rest of the "Great Flicks" series, please encourage your students to attend--whether or not you are teaching the film.  

Next up: Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa's 1957 version of Macbeth set in feudal Japan.  If you are teaching Japanese lit. or Shakespeare, your students might find it interesting.  It might also be of interest if you are discussing feudal societies, notions of adaptation, or tragedy in general.  Many of our students will have read Macbeth in high school.

For a complete list of movies, click here:  "Great Flicks" series.  For more information, please see Constance C. Relihan, Coordinator of Great Books.

Check Them Out

The Department of English has 15 videos that can be checked out as teaching resources.   See Jean Joiner in HC 9030 to check out a video.  The complete lists of movies and CD-ROMs are below.

Movies

CD-ROMs

Gameday, Game-Day, Game Day Survey

Dr. Robin Sabino is researching the pronunciation, spelling, and meaning of a word that's so new it's not in any dictionary. Click here to participate in the GAMEDAY, GAME-DAY, GAME DAY survey.


Gender, Feminism, and Great Books Reading Group

An interdisciplinary reading group for those in the Auburn community interested in gender and feminist issues, lively discussion, good food and drink, we investigate a variety of literary and critical works, often focused on a theme or interest, such as ethnicity, autobiography, spirituality, feminist theory.

Please join us for a Back to School Potluck Dinner to inaugurate a new series of discussions.  Bring: a potluck item and ideas about what to read or what theme to pursue.

Wednesday, September 4 - 7:00 pm - Susan Roberson’s home - 901 Tacoma Drive, slroberson@mindspring.com

Contacts:  Co-coordinators - Susan Roberson (Alabama State U faculty, formerly AU Instructor); Joyce Rothschild (AU faculty)

Great Books News

The Great Books program will sponsor an informal question and answer session on the problems raised by teaching classical texts in Great Books courses with the University classicist, Dr. Mary Kuntz on Thursday, 9/5, at 12:30 pm in the English Center.  All teachers of Great Books are invited to attend. (It will also mark the GB program's inaugural use of the new English Center facilities.)

Individuals teaching GB this semester should remember to turn in a copy of their syllabus to Dr. Relihan's box if they have not already done so.

The Great Books Committee will meet on Wednesday, 9/4, at 1:30 p.m. in 9030D.  Meetings are open to any interested department member and will be on alternating Wednesdays.

Job Search

Graduate students and instructors are encouraged to participate in a Job Search Meeting on Thursday, September 12 from 4:00-5:00 p.m. in HC 2324.  Come to discuss preparing materials for MLA-advertised and other positions.  If you have questions, contact Margaret Kouidis (kouidvm@auburn.edu). 

Jim Ryan's article, "Ishmael's Recovery: Injury, Illness, and Convalescence in Moby-Dick," has been accepted for a special journal issue on disability in Herman Melville's fiction. It will appear during 2003 in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.

If you would like to include an item in the "Professional Notes" section of The English Channel, please submit your note to Betsy Smith or Alise Chabaud.

 

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Please submit items and direct all questions or comments about The English Channel to Betsy Smith or Alise Chabaud.

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